It’s not very often I catch a raccoon way out in the bush. But I guess they’re out there.

I caught this raccoon yesterday and I thought he was big. Weighed him once I got home and he was 28lbs.

Going to make a pair of mitts out of him!

Nice coon.Common sized here but they get big around here.

Anything over 35 lbs I've caught 4 over that 2 at 37#,38# and 39,5# 38"to 42" to the skirt.

Hard to get a 30 around here. 28 would be a good one too.
Jim

Our big males in Northern South Dakota that are fully mature are 28 pounds in the fall just like the one you picture and they will stretch 5X. If they get older they get bigger and heavier and I have taken a number between 35 and 38 pounds all of which went 6X(since that size was recognized).

40's and a few 50's here but they are fat butterballs.

I consider 35# huge

I still think 28lb raccoon is big lol!

Thirty is a big coon. Have caught a lot in that range. Rarely weigh a coon anymore. Thirty-five would be extremely large. Most forty pounders have never been weighed. Sometimes the really big boars are pretty rough and tough scraping damaged type goods. I’d take our corn feed twenty,twenty-five pound coon over farther north large but poorer furred coon.

Here in Pa, my biggest was 29#

My personal best is 24.25. It was just on Christmas. I can’t imagine some of the ones you guys are talking about

Nice one . Northern coon run bigger . I think anything over 35# is huge but upper 20's is no slouch . Largest I've caught was 46# a couple years ago ( used a coyote stretcher on him )

In Pa., few make it over 20 lbs. Back in the hay days in the late 70s, buyers here were paying out top dollars for coon over 18 lb. on the carcass. Didn’t seem like one 20-22 lb paid anymore.

I used coyote stretcher also.

34# 15oz was the biggest I ever weighed and I've caught 2 that would have been bigger, caught many over 30. Never seen a 40# coon.

This time of year after being holed up and now boaring that's a good one. I measure them from tip of nose to base of tail 37 inched and up are the big uns 41 was my biggest if memory serves me 33lbs.

Don't remember the exact weight but was in the high 40's for me and it was with hounds not trapped.

This is right on the money. Or lack there of. LLL

I agree as our coon are big and heavy furred but ugly.

28 would be a big one here. Every year I get one around 30, my biggest were two at 37, both females caught in barns in January years ago. Actually for me most coons over 20 here are 4xl so to me those are bigger coons.
Actually with the low coon prices numbers are up here and have been for a while. We have not had any major disease as of yet so we have high numbers but also several more older and thus larger coon so a few more big ones.
Bryce